indictment, (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed., p. 1245,
West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Quietus Est

In old English law, quit; acquitted; discharged. A word used by the clerk of the
pipe, and auditors in the exchequer, in their acquittances or discharges given to
accountants; usually concluding with an abinde recessit quietus (hath gone quit
thereof), which was called a "quietus est. " A final discharge or aquittance, as
from a debt or obligation; that which silences claim (Black's Law Dictionary,
Henry Campbell Black, 6^thed, p. 1249, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Recognizance

An obligation entered into before a court or magistrate duly authorized for that
purpose whereby the recognizor acknowledges that he will do some act required
by law which is specified therein. The act of recognizing is performed by the
recognizor's assenting to the words of the magistrate and acknowledging himself
to be indebted to a certain party in a specific amount to be paid if he fails to
perform the requisite act.
An obligation undertaken by a person, generally a defendant in a criminal case, to
appear in court on a particular day or to keep the peace. It runs to the court and
may not require a bond. In this case it is called personal recognizance (Black's
Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed, p. 1271, West Pub. Co., St. Paul,
MN, 1990)

Relict

A widow or widower. The survivor of a pair of married people, whether the
survivor is the husband or the wife; it means the relict of the united pair (or of the
marriage union), not the relict of the deceased individual. (Black's Law Diction-
ary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed, p. 1291, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Satisfaciendum

ad

To satisfy. The emphatic words of the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum,
which requires the sheriff to take the person of the defendant to satisfiy the
plaintiff s claim. (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed, p. 50,
West Pub.Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Scire facias

Lat. A judicial writ, founded upon some matter of record, such as a judgment
or recognizance and requiring the person against whom it is brought to show
cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (in
the case of a scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be
annulled and vacated. The name is used to designate both the writ and the whole
proceeding. A judicial writ directing a debtor to appear and show cause why a
dormant judgment against him should not be revived. The most common appli-
cation of this writ is as a process to revive a judgment, after the lapse of a certain
time, or on a change of parties, or otherwise to have execution of the judgment,
in which cases it is merely a continuation of the original action.... (Black's Law
Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed, p. 1346 West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN,